Each of the 26 was charged Friday with one count of attempted disorderly conduct and one count of obstructing a law enforcement officer. Most of those charged were women.

For one week in November, protesters blocked shipments of Stryker vehicles and other military cargo from the Port of Olympia to Fort Lewis. The military equipment was used in the Iraq war.

Larry Hildes, a lawyer, said he was angry the charges were filed so close to the one-year statute of limitations running out.

Hildes said some of the women who were arrested Nov. 13 were forced to disrobe in plain view of policemen at the Olympia City Jail.

An increasing number of stories like this are appearing in my inbox. The incidents are either unreported in the mainstream media (as in the recent incident of Iraq War veterans being beaten by police) or, like this one, a tiny wire-service story that very few people see.

Reminds me of "the mere wish is punishable under fundamentalist law" or something, like fundamentalist cult abuse or bullying and intimidation or something.Of course there are good and horrid and non-sexist and sexist people in every profession (personally, I had most bad experiencies with school teachers) but those officers who did that should be called to account and investigations should be made. The wolf guarding the sheep...Cute kitty in the logo, by the way!

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